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Acclaimed songwriter Don Robertson has died, aged 92. The Grammy-nominated musician passed away on 16 March (15) at his home in southern California.
Robertson penned hits in multiple genres, including early country-pop crossover hits like I Really Don't Want to Know, which has been recorded more than 200 times by artists such as Les Paul and Mary Ford.
His song I Don't Hurt Anymore started as a country track for Hank Snow, but proved to be a hit R&B single for Dinah Washington. It was also recorded by Bob Dylan, Martina McBride and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others.
Robertson penned 15 songs for Elvis Presley, and wrote hits for Johnny Cash, Charley Pride and Della Reese, among others, while he also enjoyed chart success behind the microphone with his 1956 pop song The Happy Whistler.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.

Cyndi Lauper, Linda Perry and Toby Keith are set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2015. Tragic Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia and his frequent collaborator Robert Hunter will also be feted, as will country songwriter/producer Bobby Braddock and late blues star Willie Dixon.
Songwriters Hall of Fame President & CEO Linda Moran says, "Our 2015 lineup of inductees represents the rich diversity of American musical styles - Rock, Country, Blues and Pop - that have captivated the world over the past six decades. Each one of these brilliant music creators have written instantly recognisable classics, songs that are both of their time and timeless."
The Class of 2015 will be honoured at the organisation's 46th annual Induction and Awards Dinner in New York City on 18 June (15).
Gloria Estefan and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds were among the artists who missed out on inductions after being shortlisted for the honour in October (14).
The Songwriters Hall of Fame features the likes of Hal David and Burt Bacharach, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen.

Former supermodel Jerry Hall has landed a part in upcoming horror movie Hellbent, marking her first film role in four years. The ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger will play a schoolmistress opposite Billy Bob Thornton, admits she is excited to appear on the big screen again.
Hall tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "It's a bit like Breaking Bad. I play a very stern schoolmistress with little sex appeal, so it won't be that glamorous but I'm very excited to be in it... I love to model and will always do my charity work but I'm really an actress at heart. I start filming in the U.S. next month."
She recently appeared in a traditional British pantomime playing the Wicked Queen in a production of Snow White in London, while her previous film appearances include a turn in 1989 blockbuster Batman.

A rare guitar once owned by legendary Ramones rocker Johnny Ramone has sold at auction for just under $72,000 (£45,000). The red 1965 Mosrite Ventures V1 model was owned by the late punk icon in the 1980s until he sold the instrument in 1990, signing it, "Best always, Johnny Ramone, 5/22/90".
It went under the hammer at the Massachusetts-based RR Auction on Thursday (22Jan15), when it was snapped up for $71,875 (£44,922).
A statement issued to RollingStone.com by RR Auction Executive Vice President Bobby Livingston reads: "One of just nine Mosrite guitars owned by Johnny Ramone known to exist - it is not surprising that it was able to achieve such an impressive figure.
The sale also featured two handwritten love letters from fellow cult star Jerry Garcia to an unidentified model he met at a party in 1980 after performing a mini-residency at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The notes sold for $32,500 (£20,313).

Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger is spending this Christmas with his ex-wife Jerry Hall and their children. The rocker, who split from Hall in the 1990s, is organising the family's festive gathering while veteran model Hall is busy working on a traditional British pantomime show in London.
And she hopes keeping busy over yuletide will keep Jagger's spirits up following the suicide of his long-term girlfriend L'Wren Scott in March (14).
Hall tells U.K. TV host Lorraine Kelly, "My ex, Mick, is going to be holding down the fort. He's going to be organising the stockings, the tree, the food. We're very friendly. I think it is quite good for him as he is coming off a tour and he has had a rough time. It would be good to be busy with the kids and do all that."
Hall also reveals what her former husband is buying her for Christmas, adding, "He is getting me a new fridge freezer, I hope. I want an ice maker, that's my fantasy. I've already hinted quite a lot."

Two love letters penned by late rocker Jerry Garcia to a model he met in the 1980s are heading to the auction block. The Grateful Dead frontman befriended the woman, whose identity has not been released, at a party in 1980 after performing a mini-residency at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
They became friends and in one note, a shy Garcia revealed he had been waiting for the "right opportunity" for the pair to meet up again "in some kind of neutral context that would be comfortable and relaxed and free of any pressure".
The message also included a phone number and a sketch of the band onstage.
A follow up letter was written on stationery from the Le Parker Meridien hotel in Manhattan.
The model, who is selling the correspondence to pay for medical bills, tells the New York Post's Page Six column, "He was a person who you felt you knew. Very easy to be with."
The notes are expected to fetch between $10,000 (£6,250) and $15,000 (£9,375) when they go under the hammer at RR Auctions in New Hampshire.
Auction boss Bobby Livingston says, "It's eight handwritten pages from one of the true icons of the 1960s, and from an incredible, important artist as important to today's music as someone like Bob Dylan."
The cult star, who had battled drug and weight issues for years, suffered a fatal heart attack while in rehab in 1995, just eight days before his 53rd birthday.
The Grateful Dead disbanded shortly afterwards.

Former model Jerry Hall is adamant cosmetic surgery is a bad idea and turns women into a "gross caricature". The ex-wife of Sir Mick Jagger insists she uses a healthy diet and a fitness regime to stay looking young as she cannot abide the thought of going under the knife.
She has blasted age-defying procedures as "idiotic" and claims there is no need for any woman outside of Hollywood to have surgery to preserve their youthful looks.
Hall tells Britain's Hello! magazine, "It's so idiotic when they risk their lives to have surgery. You could get infections, you could die. Why make yourself look a grotesque caricature of yourself? They don't fool anyone.
"I understand that actresses feel the pressure in Hollywood, they have to do it. But for normal women to do it? If men want to leave their wife for a 19 year old, they're going to do it anyway. All the facelifts and Botox in the world isn't going to change that guy."

Former supermodel Jerry Hall is desperate to become a grandmother and wishes her children would hurry up and have babies. The ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger insists her family is very tight knit but she would love new additions to her brood.
Hall calls herself a "step-great-grandmother", as Jagger's daughter Jade - from his first marriage to Bianca - has two daughters, one of whom gave birth in May (14), but Hall still wants her own grandkids.
She tells British newspaper The Guardian, "My children are very close to Mick's other children, my stepchildren. Mick has a son with another woman, after me, so the whole family is very, very close, and I'm close with the mothers. I think family is really, really important. It gives you a good foundation, a lot of strength.
"It's really important to me that there is not conflict in the family. We have big Christmas get-togethers; with all the mums and all the children and it's wonderful. One big blended family. I am a step-great-grandmother because Jade has two daughters, and one of them, Assisi, had a baby girl in May. I'm really looking forward to my kids having some children, too. I wish they'd hurry up."

"There are a few models I'm not that crazy about! If I'm pushed though, I'd have to say Carla Bruni. I'm sure you can guess why." Sir Mick Jagger's ex-wife Jerry Hall admits she is not a fan of model/singer Carla Bruni following rumours she had an affair with the Rolling Stones frontman in the early 1990s.